The Patriarch of Rome, Pope Francis, recently published a highly anticipated Encyclical Letter on the environment entitled “Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home” Much attention has been spent on the Patriarch’s view that climate change is at least partly the fault of human activity (para 23). But I would like to focus on a statement made in paragraph 8, in which the Pope quotes Patriarch Bartholomew who said “inasmuch as we all generate small ecological damage,” we are called to acknowledge … [Read more...]
What’s more infallible? The Pope or the climate models?
Max Planck Society Confirms “The Pause”
This just in: The Max Planck Society has just published a piece confirming the reality of the great global warming pause. H/t to Pierre Gosselin and his NoTricksZone blog. … [Read more...]
Is Pope Francis a Chemist?
In expectation of the release of an encyclical on environmental stewardship, some people have claimed that Pope Francis has a degree, even a master’s degree, in chemistry, qualifying him to understand the scientific issues of climate change. Not so, according to the National Catholic Reporter. Actually, Francis graduated, at age 19, “with a título in chemistry from the Escuela Técnica Industrial No. 12*, which is a state-run technical secondary school,” and “the título really represents … [Read more...]
Physicist Gordon Fulks discusses the Left’s politicization of science and paganization of religion
Just received this from Gordon J. Fulks (Ph.D., Physics), of the University of Chicago Laboratory for Astrophysics, Mission Research Corporation, Corbett, OR, via email, and he permitted me to publish it here on our blog. It's right on target. Politics has clearly compromised science via billions of dollars going to those scientists willing to play along. Now politicians are targeting traditional religions by drawing in those who are their ideological brothers. It is surprising that the Pope … [Read more...]
Vatican’s secrecy over environmental encyclical may have diminished its value
The Associated Press reports that Vatican officials are very upset over the leak of a draft of the much-anticipated papal encyclical on the environment yesterday. I find the concluding paragraph of the AP report most interesting: In the aftermath of the "Vatileaks" scandal, the Vatican City State updated its criminal code to include severe penalties for anyone who leaks a Vatican document or publishes news from it: Up to two years in prison and a 5,000 euro ($5,600) fine. Well, I suppose if the … [Read more...]
Forget More Cowbell. This Investor Thinks We Need More Alarmism
North Carolina businessman Jay Faison feels that some Republican are being left out of the man-made climate change discussion. Namely he believes that those Republicans who believe energy policy should be set based on this failed, and ever failing, theory are not being given a voice. He intends to rectify that by financing a 175 million dollar advertising campaign which will be run through his “ClearPath Foundation” he hopes to persuade so called “moderate” Republicans to “join the fight against … [Read more...]
Hayward Slam Dunks Sachs
Economist Jeffrey Sachs directs the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He's also led the way in the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals--a high-sounding program to end poverty that depends largely on redistributing wealth from the West to the Rest with an obligatory but ineffectual nod toward the need for governmental reform and economic development in impoverished countries handicapped by corrupt leadership, progress-stifling political structures, and social mores that undermine personal … [Read more...]
Seabird Ecology and Scientific Panaceas
Ecosystems are complex. I learned that in a very real way during two summers on Alaska’s Pribilof Islands in 1993 and 1994. Participating in a joint U.S/Russian research project, our goal was to collect as much oceanographic data as possible around tiny St. Paul Island. Imagine a treeless island with the lush green hills and gray skies of coastal Scotland, coupled with the sights (and smells) from almost countless numbers of seabirds and Northern fur seals. Add a scattering of whale bones and … [Read more...]
NOAA Study Takes World by Storm: No Global Warming Pause!
That's how most of the media are treating a new study, anyway. Even the Wall Street Journal ran a news piece titled "Study Finds No Pause in Global Warming." The source? "Possible artifacts of data bias in the recent global surface warming hiatus," published this week in Science, by long-time global warming alarmist Tom Karl et al. Abstract: Much study has been devoted to the possible causes of an apparent decrease in the upward trend of global surface temperatures since 1998, a phenomenon … [Read more...]
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